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Monday, 25 August 2014

Sketching of a tree using graphite pencil by Manju Panchal

Graphite sketching on Fabriano Academia paper

For long I had it in mind to use simple graphite pencil for sketching on Fabriano Academia paper. The pencil which I planned to use was 10B Camel accompanied by a normal HB graphite pencil. Subject chosen was a tree as I am still doing the series on different types of trees.

Instead of using my regular holiday snaps, this time, I went ahead and photographed a tree in the vicinity of my house and later edited it using Aviary App. Taking it as reference I created this tree sketch as shown below. Every tree has its distinct features, the barks, the textures, the twisting branches, different shapes of leaves etc. Sketching two trees can never be the same experience. Therefore the excitement continues. If it were the same kind, after a while it would lead to boredom and loss of interest.

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Graphite sketching of a tree on Fabriano Academia paper ( 120gsm )

Everytime I travel these days, I look at trees with great interest, trying to identify the shapes of the entire foilage around the branches, the darkness created by the shadows and sometimes I actually begin to mentally paint the entire image in my mind. All the observation that we do in our day today life , I believe, does help somewhere in the long run. It helps us to see better, feel better and paint better.

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Passionate about ART since childhood. Graduated in science and later in life took to brushes and pencils, drawing and painting different subjects in a realistic way. My love for travelling and being in different beautiful places inspired me further to capture the beauty of nature on paper and canvas. Created this blog to share my love of art, my experiments with different mediums and to get in touch with people who think, breathe and live art just the way I do.

It was my DREAM to draw, sketch and paint and I AM LIVING MY DREAM by painting almost every day of my life.

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Thumbnail or study sketches are small art works created in different mediums. These works get completed fast and help in better understanding of the subject, medium and the techniques involved. It can be later used as a reference to create a bigger art work.